So I've reviewed movies and music, so why not cheese? As many of my aquaintances know I am lactose intolerant. This of course leads people to exclaim "Oh my god! How do you live? How do you eat pizza? Is it contagious? Why does your milk taste funny? Do you eat ice cream? How did you become such a freak? Would you like a glass of milk?" and so on... To them I naturally reply "I live fine, without cheese if ever, no, it doesn't, sometimes with pills, the water, and no Sabra, stop trying to kill me." But anyway, one thing that I have always loved since I was a kid has been macaroni and cheese. Now as you may have guessed there is cheese in that, which has milk in it, which has lactose in it, and since my stomache has little or no lactase I'm not able to process that (i.e. I get sick). So I've had problems trying to eat it. Sometimes I use lactose pills, but they only help so much, and in the end I still feel ill and spend the majority of the night in the bathroom. Now I do enjoy the bathroom, but not when I have to keep running back every 5 mins. Plus it's not the best if you have company over (especially female company). So for the most part I've avoided mac and cheese.
But recently I found some decent looking soy cheese at Wegmans and thought, "hey, why not?" So I picked some up, on my mom's tab (thanks mom), and gave it a try this evening. So far the results have been mixed. I haven't had to run to the bathroom, although I do feel a little sick, but that's mostly due to gorging myself on mass amounts of food. So it looks like I'm safe in that area. Unfortunately it wasn't all that cheesy tasting. Now this could be because it's not really cheese, or because of my cooking technique (I've had troubles getting the cheese to melt well in the past, so I think I may have added too much milk this time, and thereby dulled down the flavor). Either way though it was still edible. It didn't taste wooden, or grainy, or spongey, or slimy, or anything else that might make your stomache turn. At times it tasted just like good old fashioned homemade mac and cheese (which leads me to believe that the lack of overall cheese flavor may be due to the latter, not the former).
So overall I must rate it as a pleasent experience. Of course my opion my have been slightly skewed by the optimal conditions I dined in (nice cool apartment, warm blanket, warm wool socks, and a VHS copy of classic Tick episodes), but atmosphere is all part of the dining experience. In the end it didn't make me ill and semi-filled my craving for cheese-like flavor so...
RATING: A car is good. But wouldn't it be nicer if it transformed into something you need, like a girlfriend?